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Old 05-04-2007, 10:47 PM   #12
richlevy
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TW, did you miss the part where Caldera, before they bought Unix from SCO, was a Linux distributor?

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Eric S. Raymond and Rob Landley release the Open Source Initiative Position Paper on the SCO-vs.-IBM Complaint written as an amicus curae (friend of the court) brief in favor of IBM. The paper outlines some fundamental errors in fact and interpretation regarding SCO's ownership of Unix code, copyrights and other claims.
Also, it appears that SCO is reluctant to sow the code they allege is being infringed upon. How crazy is that for a lawsuit?

From here
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SCO refuses to allow access to the samples of code containing the alleged copyright violations except under a non-disclosure agreement (NDA). SCO's NDA would not only require that the signer keep confidential which lines of code SCO contested, but would also require that they hold confidential any information SCO told them, even if they already knew that information before being informed of it by SCO; all Linux kernel developers have considered this to be far too restrictive, so none of them have signed it. However, at SCO's annual reseller's convention in August of 2003 they revealed two short sections of code they alleged were copyright violations, and images of Darl McBride's presentation of this code were soon after published on German computer magazine publisher Heinz Heise's website. [4]
On May 30, 2003, SCO Group's CEO Darl McBride was quoted as saying that the Linux kernel contained "hundreds of lines" of code from SCO's version of UNIX, and that SCO would reveal the code to other companies under NDA in July. [5] To put this into context, David Wheeler's SLOCCount estimates the size of the Linux 2.4.2 kernel as 2,440,919 source lines of code out of over 30 million physical source lines of code for a typical GNU/Linux distribution. Therefore, as per SCO's own estimate, the allegedly infringing code would make up about 0.001% of the total code of a typical GNU/Linux installation. [6] SCO has since upwardly revised this figure to over a million lines of code, however. [7]
So when they are challenged on what they say, they change the story.
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